One of the sponsors of Northern Illinois University's football team is offering a million dollars to a randomly-drawn fan at each home game if the Huskies return a kickoff for a touchdown at home.

When you read the fine print, you'll note that it only applies to the opening kickoff, not just any kickoff.

Given that NIU has only run one opening kickoff back for a TD at home in over 100 years, and given that Coach Joe Novak routinely defers when he wins the coin toss, and you have six people who are getting their hopes up this year for nothing. Why?

my buddy went to radford college and he claims that since it was his schools first yr of football papa johns offered a dollar off a pizza for every touchdown scored during a win. Needless to say they lost all but one game against the school for the deaf dumb and blind. Supposedly the pizzas cost roughly 50 cents and papa johns made you come pick them up since they lost money on deliveries. I remember college well and nothing was better than a cheap pizza. So I guess the point is that it all depends on your mindset. Dan next time your in gainesville try the university location of five star they sometimes offer discounts after gator wins and you can still get a large one topping delivered for under six bucks now thats a good deal.

Actually 100% of coaches in the NFL choose to receive if they win the coin toss. In the NFL when you win the toss you get the choice of choosing which goal you want to defend or if you want to receive or kick then the other team gets to choose the other one. At the second half the team that lost the flip gets the first choice. So if you choose to kick to start off the game then the other team will just choose to receive in the second half.

As Boscolicious said, he was insured so he didn't lose anything on it other than the insurance premium, plus it doesn't even compare to the "free marketing" he got from it. It was the best thing that could have happened to him.

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